Author :
Noe, Phil ; Zabaneh, Khalil
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, USA
Abstract :
The purpose of this research is to investigate the relative accuracy of GPS receivers as related to navigating a robotic vehicle in a caravan following mode and related applications. For most applications robotic vehicle navigation requires position accuracy less than a meter. The caravan following mode of robotic vehicle operation is of particular interest to the staff at Texas A&M University because of the parallel research effort with a Chrysler mini-van in the Texas A&M University BART project. The caravan following mode of navigation consists of a manned lead vehicle followed by an unmanned robotic vehicle that tracks the lead vehicle
Keywords :
computerised navigation; mobile robots; radionavigation; road vehicles; satellite relay systems; BART project; Chrysler mini-van; GPS receivers; Texas A&M University; caravan following mode; manned lead vehicle; position accuracy; relative GPS; relative accuracy; robotic vehicle navigation; unmanned robotic vehicle; Aerospace electronics; Availability; Computer errors; Global Positioning System; Navigation; Parallel robots; Scattering; Terminology; Testing; Vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Position Location and Navigation Symposium, 1994., IEEE
Conference_Location :
Las Vegas, NV
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1435-2
DOI :
10.1109/PLANS.1994.303364
